Authors: Conejo, A.J., Baringo Morales, L., Kazempour, S.J., Siddiqui, A.S.Presents a detailed description of tools for making informed decisions regarding investment in electricity transmission and generationWritten in a tutorial and modular style and includes a large number of illustrative examplesProvides readers with a comprehensive understanding of current investment problems in electric energy systems

Decision making in land management involves preferential selection among competing alternatives. Often, such choices are difficult owing to the complexity of the decision context. Because the analytic hierarchy process (AHP, developed by Thomas Saaty in the 1970s) has been successfully applied to many complex planning, resource allocation, and priority setting problems in business, energy, health, marketing, natural resources, and transportation, more applications of the AHP in natural resources and environmental sciences are appearing regularly.